Mario Teaches Typing

by: Interplay Entertainment Corp.

Publication date: 1992

Developed by
Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Released
1992
Also For
Macintosh
Published by
Interplay Entertainment Corp.

Educational
Typing
ESRB Rating
Kids to Adults
Genre
Educational
Misc
Licensed
Perspective
Side view

Description

Mario comes to the PC, in the form of a typing tutor.

In this product you get to play one of four games, of progressing difficulty (as either Mario, Luigi or the Princess):

Mario's Smash & Dash: Assist your character run past a series of boxes and turtles, each labelled with a letter that must be typed to avoid the obstacle.

Mario's Wet World Challenge: Help your characters swim across the screen whilst being chased by hungry sea creatures - only typing the words that scroll across the bottom of the screen will let you escape.

Mario's Tunnel Of Doom: Help your character run through a tunnel filled with traps, avoiding falling blocks and the like, by correctly typing the sentences which scroll across the top of the screen.

Mario's Expert Express: Essentially a practice typing lesson where you copy and type pre-defined paragraphs with the assistance of Mario's supervision.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

Addeddate: 2014-12-26 08:45:50

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: MarioTea/MARIO/MARIO.EXE

Identifier: msdos_Mario_Teaches_Typing_1992

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mario-teaches-typing

Mobygames_also_for: Macintosh

Mobygames_developed_by: Interplay Entertainment Corp.

Mobygames_educational: Typing

Mobygames_esrb_rating: Kids to Adults

Mobygames_genre: Educational

Mobygames_misc: Licensed

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Reviewer: John A-S - - September 27, 2023
Subject: thank you

It works very good now I can finally play mario teaches typing

Reviewer: Jameson Matthews - - April 25, 2023
Subject: omg thank you for at least making the 1st mario teaches typing work

thanks :)

Reviewer: Aaron Whitford - - December 13, 2022
Subject: It doesnt work ):

I'm trying to play this on a school chromebook. It doesn't work bc the "IA" fails to download. Also the no-fun extension is "Lightspeed filter agent" or "Relay". The no-fun extension is probably interfering with the internet archive. Plz fix. Plz delete "relay". The game is good tho.

Reviewer: Anthney - - October 26, 2022
Subject: THX

not kidding i cant type good and i love dos games so yeah

Reviewer: MortonMaJorton - - July 23, 2022
Subject: It's an MS-DOS game

You can't install it on Windows anything (maybe 3.1). You need DOSbox to run it.

Reviewer: Sean Michael + MS Agent - - July 6, 2021
Subject: Good!

Ms agent said good
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Reviewer: fuzzy#s - - April 20, 2021
Subject: Failure to install on Windows 10...

The emulator worked fine for me, but I was unable to get the installation software to work on my PC even with the Compatibility Mode set down to Windows 95...

Reviewer: welooo - - January 24, 2021
Subject: Very Nice

Reviewer: RetroNostalgic - - December 6, 2020
Subject: Fun typing game

I liked the graphics and sound. I liked that when I typed the letters faster then Marco went faster on the screen.

I liked that it showed me words per minute at the end of a level. At least I think it was at the end of a level.

I don't know if Mario teaches typing is the best way to learn typing but, its a fun typing game.

Reviewer: welp_mixes - - July 11, 2020
Subject: ehhhh

Me:Oh Boy I'm So Excited To Play Mario Teaches Typing
Also Me : IT DOESN"T WORK WHAT THE HECK!!
i used dos box and when i started it up it said illegal command MARIO and i don't know what ANY of that meat or still means

Reviewer: baconboi - - June 18, 2020
Subject: mario teaches typing 2 is better

it has the creepy floating mario head

Reviewer: Cutiepatooty123 - - April 4, 2020
Subject: An Oldie, But Goodie!

Played this back in the day on The Last Daycare I attended in the '90's! Glad to see that it's here!
It's just slow at the Screen-Swaps.

Reviewer: Beto Brandão - - May 31, 2019
Subject: Muito legal

Adorei jogar novamente esse jogo que me lembra a época da datilografia hahaha
https://www.codigomaximo.com.br/

Reviewer: Cassie_Workman - - November 9, 2018
Subject: YESSS!!!!

I love this game, its super fun! You should seriously consider this game if you want to improve your typing skills!

Reviewer: ulmusfagus - - March 27, 2017
Subject: at Krpiper7

try: http://www.dosbox.com
and: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/mario-teaches-typing-1gl
to install locally.

best,
ulmus

Reviewer: Krpiper7 - - January 10, 2017
Subject: Saving student name

I am starting to use this my elementary computer classes grade 1 through 5. It would be great if it would save the students name so the next time they get on they can continue where they left off.

Is there a download for this program.

Otherwise I really like it and so does my elementary kids.

Thanks

Reviewer: ArloFrey - - February 26, 2016
Subject: Great for school

I really enjoy using this to learn how to type in Communications Tech in my school. I am really glad that I found this. Thank you! You've really made school more fun!
- ArloFrey

Reviewer: starfishprime - - February 13, 2016
Subject: Nostalgia I didn't even know I had.

I remember they'd make me play this for like an hour in first period back in 5th grade or so. I was such a bad typist back then that I f*cking hated this "game". The fact that it had Mario in it seemed like a cruel joke since I loved watching my brother play Super Mario World (I was never good at video games myself. Still am not. Blame terrible hand-eye coordination resulting from a neurodegenerative disease. :P) Odd how frustrating I felt this game was as a kid and now as an adult it's piss easy and actually brought back memories. Funny how things change.

Reviewer: chuch - - November 25, 2015
Subject: Amazing Game

This is a great game if you want to learn how to type of just have fun and relax.

Reviewer: ScarletLark - - October 15, 2015
Subject: Glad to find my favorite typing game - a few issues, though

The caps lock needs to be used instead of shift, which can really slow you down... Also, the ";" key stopped working about halfway through.

Any way to fix this??

Reviewer: codyw1996 - - October 8, 2015
Subject: Doesn't work for me.

the '0' key does't work for me. I tried typing it with both the numpad and the top line of numbers. It doesn't work. Fun game though.

Reviewer: Ramen_King_1010 - - August 14, 2015
Subject: Awesome Game

This is an awesome game to learn from, but kinda hard to do.

Reviewer: Naussica - - June 7, 2015
Subject: ";"

The ";" actually does work but it wants you to use it via Caps lock instead of shift.

Reviewer: LL1111 - - March 20, 2015
Subject: So far so good.

Seems pretty ok here.

Reviewer: Rob III - - February 5, 2015
Subject: Work around.

It seems from a few minutes of playing that ASCII code works for semi colons ";", so this may apply globally. Hold down alt and type "059". ;="alt+059"

Reviewer: tastiger - - January 9, 2015
Subject: Broke

The game's pretty broke, with a lot of lags and not being able to read a lot of the keys like ',' or ';'. Also random which numbers will work (number line or number pad).

Reviewer: kristen58 - - January 8, 2015
Subject: doesn't work

In the game, the ; key doesn't work. I got stuck.

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